April Lunch and Learn

Presenter Candace Brunette-Debassige is a Mushkego-ininew iskwew with Cree and French settler lineage and member of the Mushkegowuk Cree Nation in Treaty 9 Territory (Albany 142). An Assistant Professor at Laurentian University and Co-Director of the Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI), Candace uses storytelling to undo the silencing of Indigenous peoples experiences and challenge systemic racism, colonialism and sexism in Westernized education. She is the author of the 2024 award-winning book Tricky Grounds, a unique exploration of Indigenous women's leadership experiences in Canadian university reconciliation movements. Her scholarship and creative activities are deeply personal, drawing on her own lived experiences and the wisdom of Indigenous women's embodied ways of knowing.